FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:16 AM
> 
> Well... it seems that all collapse so... I'll collapse results too
> :( I still don't understand why test with osql do not collapse
> select with delete... from moreandcount it seems that it collapse
> select with update...

I understand.  db-lib and ODBC define "resultset" differently, and
db-lib offers no way for the application to fetch more than one rowcount
per SELECT.  

dbresults returns SUCCEED only when TDS7_RESULT arrives.

SQLMoreResults returns SQL_SUCCESS for TDS7_RESULT and for "extra" DONE
packets.  

http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-cnarc/cng1110e/dblib/@Generi
c__BookTextView/12608;pt=39614

        "If the command is one that executes a stored procedure, for
example an exec or remote procedure call, DBCOUNT returns the number of
rows returned by the latest select statement executed by the stored
procedure...."

Microsoft's db-lib docs (no longer on the www) say the same thing.  Too
bad they're not following their own spec: dbcount() doesn't return the
count of the last SELECT statement in a stored procedure; it returns the
count of the *last* statement, SELECT or not.  

So, db-lib *must* "collapse" as you say.  It can return only one
rowcount.  I think we should adhere to Sybase's specification and keep
the rowcount from the SELECT statement i.e., from the first DONE packet
after the last ROW packet.  

For ODBC, we should follow Microsoft's lead, returning intermediate
rowcounts based on DONE packets.  Except for one thing: can we agree
that "resultset" means columns, TDS7_RESULT or similar?  We can call the
other thing an "ODBC rowcount resultset" or something like that.  

Regards, 

--jkl

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